What CMS
Detect which CMS a site is using.
Web Technology Detection:
Get detailed information about the technologies used to power any website. Our algorithm reveals content management systems, e-commerce platforms, web frameworks, programming languages and more.
Lead Generation:
Create Technology Reports to get lists of companies optimized for the needs of your business. Filter our database by technology profile, hosting provider, WordPress theme, language, top-level domain, and traffic rank.
Batch Detections:
The fastest way to detect which technologies are powering tens, hundreds or thousands of URLs. Upload your list of websites then sit back. Results will be available to download in JSON and CSV format.
API Access:
Extract detailed information about web technologies, hosting providers, WordPress themes and more from any website. Get programmatic access to our detection methods by signing up for a free or premium API plan.
Detection Network:
Enrich your company and website data even more. API accounts with WhatCMS give you access to endpoints for hosting provider and WordPress theme data.
What is a CMS?
A Content Management System, or CMS, is a piece of software designed to help users create and edit websites. CMS functionality varies widely and can include much more than the basic features for managing text and image content. Some of the most popular systems help users design, track users, handle searches, collect visitor comments, host forums and much much more.
How Our Detections Work:
We look at a variety of factors to determine which technologies a website is using. After fetching a webpage we begin looking for artifacts that were left behind by the underlying systems. In HTML, we look for things like tags and common paths for images. We inspect for custom headers and common session names. In all, we check every page for thousands of possible artifacts before returning the results.